The Graveyard is the seventh studio album by Danish heavy metal band King Diamond, released in September 1996.

It was the first album by King Diamond on the Massacre Records label and the last to feature drummer Darrin Anthony.

After years of being there, King sees his chance to escape and takes it, strangling the nurse that arrives at his cell to administer his medication and stealing her keys.

King plots his revenge against Mayor McKenzie, and begins killing people who pass through the graveyard at night.

The urban legend King was obsessed with turns out to be true, as his living head beckons Lucy not to leave him as she walks away with her father.